Transportation and Environmental Geotechnics

Chapter 1. Study of Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation on Bamboo Geotextile Reinforced Clayey Bed.- Chapter 2. Strip Footing on Reinforced Granular Bed using Geo- grid and Bearing Reinforcement.- Chapter 3. Geosynthetics - Past findings, Present trends, and future prospects in Road pavements.- Chapter 4. Modeling and Analysis of Back-to-back Walls with combined Wrap around and Full-Height Rigid Facing for High-Speed Rail Applications.- Chapter 5. Influence of Conductive Jute Geotextile -Encased Stone Column in Soft Clay.- Chapter 6. Simulation of Geosynthetic Encased Stone Column under Embankment Loading in Soft Clay.- Chapter 7. Improvement of Railway Embankment Formation by laying Geogrid beneath ballast Bed - A Case Study.- Chapter 8. Review on the application of Geosynthetic for ground improvement.- Chapter 9. Coconut Tree Roots As Natural Geosynthetics.- Chapter 10. Experimental and Numerical Study on California Bearing Ratio for Two-Layer Soil Systems.- Chapter 11. Strength & Durability Characteristics of Cement Treated Soil for its Application in Sub-Base & Base Course of Flexible Pavements.- Chapter 12. Evaluation of Pond ash mixed with Coir as a Pavement Material.- Chapter 13. Effect of Soil Properties on the Rutting Performance of Flexible Pavement: A Numerical Study.- Chapter 14. Feasibility of Utilizing MSW Incinerated Bottom Ash for Subgrade & Sub-base Applications in Flexible Pavements.- Chapter 15. Influence of Existing Ganga Sand on Subgrade Characteristics of Rural Road in South Bengal Districts.- Chapter 16. Relationship between Index Properties & CBR of Soil and Prediction of CBR.- Chapter 17. Numerical Evaluation of Performance of the Geosynthetic Reinforced Walls with Poorly Graded Reinforced Fill.- Chapter 18. Life cycle assessment for the management of municipal solid waste in Indian cities.- Chapter 19. A Review on Removal of Heavy Metals From Contaminated Soils By Phytoremediation.- Chapter 20. Investigation of soil

Dr. Kasinathan Muthukkumaran is currently Professor in Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. He obtained Ph.D. in Soil-Structure Interaction and Marine Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute Technology Madras. He has published more than 150 papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has completed 5 R & D (including ISRO - Chandrayaan- 2 Mission project) & 70 major consultancy projects in Geotechnical Engineering and published two patent including "Moon Soil" (A Method for Manufacture of Highland Lunar Soil Simulant). He has guided 10 PhD scholars and 6 more are in progress, 5 MS (by research) and more than 40 M.Tech. students in Geotechnical and allied research areas. He is the Founder Chairman of Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS-Trichy) Trichy Chapter. He is a member of Technical Committee (TC-301 on "Preservation of Historic Sites") of International Society for Soil Mechanicsand Geotechnical Engineering. Prof. Muthukkumaran area of research is in geotechnical engineering, which includes pile foundation, soil-structure interaction, marine geotechnics & foundations, field instrumentation, geotechnical physical modeling, ground improvement and forensic geotechnical engineering. He has received DST Young Scientist Award, IGS- Smt. Indra Joshi Biennial Award and Keynote Paper Award - GEOMATE Conference 2015 at Osaka, Japan. He is an Associate Editor of Australian journal of Civil Engineering and serving editorial board member of several journals.   Prof. Muthukkumaran has significant administrative contribution as Estate Officer, Associate Dean (Planning and Development), Member of Buildings and Works Committee and Member of Board of Governors (BoG) of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli and Member of Buildings and Works Committee, IIM Trichy. He has received NIT Trichy Achiever Awards for research publications,